Raul Miller writes: > It does look like scandir() is the culprit -- and dpkg-deb -I also > fails. I've written perl programs which call readdir() on this new > system and they seem to work fine, so I have some confidence that this > isn't a umsdos filesystem implementation problem (though I'm not ready > to cross that off my list either). > > It would be ideal, for me, if you could re-write dpkg, etc. without > scandir. However, I imagine this is going to have to get fixed in > libc or some such.
There is a rather ropey version of scandir in compat.c, which gets compiled in automatically if `configure' sees that you don't have scandir. Try editing config.h not to define HAVE_SCANDIR and see what happens. Obviously the libc (or kernel - I think they changed the directory reading interface) should be fixed eventually. Ian.
